Hat tip to Kathryn McTaggart for posting this amazing photography collection by James Mollison on the social media site Twitter, featured in the New York Times.
The photos are all of children’s bedrooms around the world and as a piece of photo journalism it’s extremely powerful. These pictures allow us into another world, a private world filled with cultural colour, sometimes controversial and often hugely revealing. The photos are truly beautiful but all hide their own unsettling secrets about the way children dream and how it affects their world when they wake.
There’s Risa, 15, training to be a geisha and a small boy from Romania who sleeps outside. And then there’s Indira, 7, from Nepal who works in a quarry and Erien, 14, who slept on the floor until the late stages of her pregnancy. These images challenge our view of the world, from those children who sleep in cell-like rooms with hard beds to those whose rooms are filled with toys and tokens of their achievements, each picture tells a story and each one asks us to question the tale.
We haven’t come across such a haunting and thought-provoking set of photos like this for a while. A definite must-see.
Joey, 11, killed his first deer at the age of 7. He lives with his family in Kentucky.
